Virtual Group Motivation in Exercise Treadmill Testing

Exercise Test Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Impact of Virtual Group Motivation on the Performance and Comfort of Patients in Exercise Treadmill Testing: A Randomized, Open Label Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03704493
• Other study ID #: ErgoTrial
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: July 7, 2014
• Est. completion date: September 26, 2014

Study information

• Verified date: October 2018
• Source: Kantonsspital Baden
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Exercise stress testing is the most frequently used clinical tool for assessment of coronary artery disease. To ensure a high validity of the results, a good Patient compliance is crucial. The aim of this study is to examine the effects of a virtually presented exercise group on the perceived comfort and the exercise capacity of patients during classical treadmill exercise testing. The investigators hypothesis is, that a virtually presented running group will increase the comfort of patients and their exercise capacity.

Description:

108 Patients were randomized in an open label trial 1:1 to either exercise treadmill testing while watching a static image of a flower (image group) or to exercise treadmill testing while watching a video of 5 amateur runners, running across and fields, giving the patient the impression of running within the group (video group). After the exercise test patients were asked to score their perceived comfort level and achieved level of their subjective physical limit on a 10 point scale.

Standard exercise treadmill parameters, as well as baseline demographic data were recorded of each patient. Patients with missing data was excluded of the analysis.

Statistic analysis was performed with t-test for normally distributed data and Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney-Test for non-normal data.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 108
• Est. completion date: September 26, 2014
• Est. primary completion date: September 26, 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• indication for exercise stress testing

Exclusion Criteria:

• any contraindication for exercise stress testing

• unability of performing an exercise treadmill test

• recent surgery

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Exercise Test

Intervention

Diagnostic Test:
• Video Group
A video of a group of five amateur runners running along woods and fields. The group was filmed from behind to give the patient the impression of running within the group.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Kantonsspital Baden

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Patients' performance	Patients' performance in metabolic equivalents percentage of age predicted maximum	Day of Exercise Testing
Primary	Patients' comfort	Subjective level of comfort of patient during the exercise test rated on a 10 point scale. Scale ranges from 1 to 10. 10 indicates that the patient felt absolutely comfortable during the test, 1 indicates that the patient did not feel comfortable at all.	Day of Exercise Testing
Secondary	Exercise test duration	Exercise test duration in min:sec	Day of Exercise Testing
Secondary	Age predicted heart rate	achieved percentage of age predicted heart rate	Day of Exercise Testing
Secondary	physical limits	Achieved subjective level of physical limit rated on a 10 point scale. Scale ranges from 1 to 10, 10 indicates that the patient subjectively reached his physical Limit, 1 indicates that the patient did not reach his physical limit at all. The higher the value the more did the patient reach his physical limit (the better the outcome).	Day of Exercise Testing
Secondary	rate pressure product increase	increase of the rate pressure product during the test	Day of Exercise Testing